Halloween comics, radio and cinema

Incredibly, the font of Halloween stories and inspired his first appearance outside the cinema, but in good old radio. It must be the first story scary and exciting for Halloween, the writer HG Wells. If you remember Tom Cruise War of the Worlds, then you might already know this writer.

HG Wells was the creator of the War of the Worlds. How could the people of one thing clear as a literary piece of fear? A radio production of Orson Welles, the genius ofbehind the effective use of the War of the Worlds on Halloween.

"And today on the news ... aliens!"

You guessed it. Somewhere in the recent thriller / horror / comedy movies in modern Hollywood, the production of Welles' was mentioned. Part of the War of the Worlds were the information programs that have been read between songs.

Imagine hearing from something as gruesome as The War of the Worlds, as real news on a normal day, just Halloween! The premise was perfect.In addition, you guessed it. People were really scared! There was a news that people actually come in a panic (North American listeners.)

In reality, individuals who were in New Jersey mass panic! Imagine the effectiveness of the movement. It 'was amazing, and a wonderful tool in a literary classic. Moreover, this was only in 1930. What followed, a careful use more effort out for Halloween as a central theme in the media available.

Literature

The theme ofHalloween is also able to penetrate into the realm of literature. Only fifteen years after production ghost radio, a writer named Anthony Boucher came with a noir story that plays with reality and the macabre. Boucher was the setting of the story, in California.

Five years later, a series of North American comic book, shocking, frightening the prospect of Halloween as it was originally rendered. A hardened master of a house for orphans finally got his reward as HalloweenZucca. Moreover, the Halloween pumpkins are carved out quite well, and some 'of their front surfaces removed. It 'was a bold move, the existence and acceptance of such materials as soon as a Halloween event in which only a few universal themes followed.

EC Comics was not far behind, this time focusing on things like cutting off body parts. But before the sixties, the American Comics Code regulated the use of such literary devices. It was no longer "acceptable" andso the short time that the code was very active, has been dead these comics.

Today, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman's Sandman series prove to be profitable ventures. However, they are not really supported by the Comics Code ON, ACC awards for comics like Archie.

Free TV and Movies

For one reason or another, free TV is slow to respond to the theme of Halloween. It may have been censoring (the religious right), with television productionsmuch more difficult.

Here are the first shows and movies as inspiration for Halloween in North America:

Whispering Ghosts or (Milton Berle)
O Footlight Serenade (Betty Grable and Victor Mature)
Or Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
o The House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)
Or Rosemary's Baby (Audrey Hepburn)
O Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
King Kong or
Godzilla O
or Psycho (Hitchcock)
O Night of the Demons